Stop USB devices from being in "Safely remove" list

macnab said:

...@Lady Fitzgerald. You need to know which ports to "remove" from the list. In my case I have 6 SATA ports. It is port 0 which I use to "hot-swap" my backup HDDs. I want to leave this port in the list.

Assuming you are using AHCI and using the default Microsoft driver, in regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Services\msahci. It should only have one key - Enum. Add a new key Controller0.

In my case, I added 5 sub-keys Channel1, Channel2, ... Channel5. To each of these add a new DWORD. Call it TreatAsInternalPort and then set the value to 1. Now those HDDs won't show up in the Safely remove list. Only an HDD plugged into the channel not modified will show.

Uh...that totally confused me.

macnab said:

I use Safely remove to eject a backup HDD to plug in the next one. If I don't have my flash-drive and my modem in the list I won't accidentally eject them.

Yes I have a list that pops up with he letter of the drive and if I am not sure of the letter I check in Computer and it usually tells you not only the letter but also the name of it ie "My Passport" see pic

Well the only suggestion I can think of is to reduce the speed of the mouse travel I have min set to fast but try slowing yours down to an acceptable speed.

In my pic it is slightly different in 7 where it shows Mouse and keyboard centre 7 will have a click speed option I lik to set that single and slow but you can have what you like.